The Looming App License Management Challenge

Due to the increasing power and prevalence of mobile devices, apps are rapidly moving from consumer-oriented gadgets to main IT functionality delivery platforms for enterprises. More powerful apps require more development man-hours and result in rising prices and increased licensing complexity. Many enterprises already struggle with software licensing compliance and costs on the traditional IT platforms.

This session focuses on strategies for getting ahead of the curve and preventing the current software licensing challenge from being repeated in the app economy.

This session is approved for 1 Continual Professional Development (CPD) priSM credit.

The webinar will discuss how retailer apps are being used within the APAC region. Despite Asia Pacific being one of the most mobile-driven regions in the world, questions remain over of the effectiveness of apps in specific markets.

Criteo will share some of the findings from a recent survey across 3,000 app users on consumer mobile behaviour across six APAC markets (Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, India & South Korea). A better understanding of how consumers view the in-app purchasing journey is crucial for
brands to enhance this form of brand-customer interaction, and will be discussed during this session.

The webinar will reveal essential information for brands hoping to increase sales within the region over the coming weeks, months and years.

For this Vivit SIG Talk session, 2 Performance Testing thought leaders will be featured. They will share their knowledge and expertise with you.

Below is a quick outline of the agenda and topics for you:

Speaker: Scott Moore - Performance Testing Internet of Things:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration of how to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Scott Moore will take a dive into performance testing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and platforms. It includes a deeper look into two of the most popular protocols being used today: MQTT and CoAP. Learn how you can ensure your IoT platform and applications scale and reduce the risk of failure under load in highly constrained environments.

What will be covered:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration ofhow to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

Brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group.
DevOps is setting the pace as numerous organizations struggle to keep up…especially with test automation. It's imperative to have an automation test strategy allowing fast automation script development, solid data management, minimal maintenance, and scalability. This presentation will provide an overview of implementing a strategic test automation framework in a DevOps environment, and is completely tool agnostic. So, whether your team is utilizing UFT, UFT Pro, LeanFT, Selenium, or any other automation solution, you’ll benefit from this presentation.

When it comes to standard hygiene practices in writing code, the performance testing world lags decades behind the software development world. Support for version control has only been added to performance testing tools in recent years. What is the next decades-old software development practice that performance testers should adopt?

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, February 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1057043&group=.

Award-winning JustPark is the UK’s leading parking app, with more than 1.5 million users and over £1m in transactions each month. In 2015, its first crowd funding effort broke records, reaching £3.5m. Its second round – which is still in progress - raised £1m in just three hours.

With investment in the second round currently sitting at just over £2m, we talk to one of the app’s senior developers about how JustPark will develop for scale, and its plans for taking on the £50bn UK parking industry.

Vivit launches their first ever SIG Talk event with three speakers who will give you insights into StormRunner Functional, Dynamic data handling in performance tests as well as AI and machine learning as it applies to testing.

We will discuss:

•How StormRunner Functional is the latest functional test offering from Micro Focus. In this session, Chris Trimper, an early adopter and beta tester, will share his experiences with this new product

•How Virtual Table Server (VTS), in days of Mercury Interactive, was the often-overlooked repository for dynamically updated real-time test data. Even after a revamp and relaunch in 2014, many people still don't use it, but they should. Richard's VTS demo will help you to get value from this great add-on for LoadRunner and Performance Center

•How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are rapidly impacting businesses and customers, enabling another massive shift through technology enablement. In this session, Todd DeCapua will share how these capabilities are being leveraged in Performance Engineering now, and into the future

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

We will discuss how Virtual Table Server (VTS), in days of Mercury Interactive, was the often-overlooked repository for dynamically updated real-time test data. Even after a revamp and relaunch in 2014, many people still don't use it, but they should. Richard's VTS demo will help you to get value from this great add-on for LoadRunner and Performance Center.

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

Today’s world of testing is a marathon! Testing teams are required to test more environments and mobile devices, without damaging the quality of their applications. They are required to test much earlier in the cycle, and to provide constant visibility, enabling development teams to have a short feedback loop in order to run faster and meet the business demand. This creates a big challenge for testing teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change without compromising on quality.

In this webinar, Eran will introduce you to StormRunner Functional, the very first and only hybrid test execution service to support the Micro Focus testing tools with Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and UFT Pro (LeanFT), as well as the popular and open source Selenium. Learn how it can help you improve your testing and achieve faster execution times.

Key Takeaways:

•Leverage your existing testing assets in a variety of ways: run them remotely to utilize SRF’s on-demand virtual lab or upload them for faster parallel execution and runtime scalability
•Create new testing assets from scratch using SRF’s online recording service for both web and mobile. This allows you to go “full-SaaS”, from test design to test execution and lab
•Design and execute your exploratory sessions on all your apps: native, hybrid, and web apps
•Identify and investigate the changes in your apps with SRF’s advanced root-cause analysis, and submit defects to your defect management tools

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Testing, Quality, Application Lifecycle Management Special Interest Group.

Transition to Agile development with confidence while you leverage your existing QA investments. See how ALM Octane helps teams build quality code and implement automated test management for complex applications.

In this session, you will be hearing about:

•Best practices across the Plan-Build-Test-Track phases of the Software Development Lifecycle to ensure quality application releases
•Gaining visibility and traceability across the lifecycle, while working at enterprise scale across tens/hundreds of teams
•Leveraging your choice of CI/CD pipeline for faster delivery and meet the demands for Agile portfolio management with governance and compliance
•Learning how to ramp up your Agile/DevOps practice today

ALM QC 12.55 has just been released in August, providing enhanced features and benefits for Application teams, end users and ALM admins working together to deliver high quality applications with confidence.

Join us as we review the key newly released capabilities of ALM/QC 12.55 and walk through a live demo.

ALM/QC 12.55 Highlights include:

•Test board enhancements providing improved user experience for test management and execution
•Support for Quality of Things (QoT) – ALM client for offline/online Internet of Things (IoT) & device manual testing
•Improved collaboration through integration of Skype for business
•Upgraded administration with ability to back up large files
•Synchronization tools connecting ALM to other management tools such as JIRA, TFS and RTC

We will also discuss the benefits of ALM Octane – our next-generation ALM product with Agile and DevOps capabilities built in, and how you can get started today!

Agile works well for small, co-located teams that can hover around sticky notes on a Kanban board, and collaborate on-demand. But as initiatives become more complex, and teams become dispersed, Agile can be difficult to scale across the enterprise.

What’s missing in Agile practices today is the ability to see the whole picture. With user stories as the source of record for an application, it’s hard to connect all the dots to see the complete functionality of a feature or capability. Think about the new team who will be developing additional features on that capability - where can they learn everything it does today? How will they know the impact their changes will have on that capability or potentially other capabilities? How will they collaborate on those changes and get them reviewed in a timely manner? How will your business stakeholder understand the impact of new those changes to the overall business process? Storyteller provides a centralized reusable searchable repository of exiting business and technical process models and requirements (business, non-functional and regulatory). In addition we also offer rich visualization, collaboration and review functionalities. These base capabilities are being used today to address the questions above. And - we do it in a way that everyone can understand from Business Stakeholders down to developers and testers.

Storyteller is a key player in Enterprise Agile. We bridge the business gaps in the current agile process. For companies struggling with Agile Transformation, we providing guardrails around writing user stories and feature decomposition. Project teams can save time and effort by using our user story and test plan generation which can them be automatically synched over to ALM tools. We are also a key player in the BizDevOps chain by providing that upfront business alignment so what is produced though “Dev” and delivered and maintained by “Ops” is exactly what “Biz” wanted.

HDFS on Kubernetes: Lessons Learned is a webinar presentation intended for software engineers, developers, and technical leads who develop Spark applications and are interested in running Spark on Kubernetes. Pepperdata has been exploring Kubernetes as potential Big Data platform with several other companies as part of a joint open source project.

Network engineering and operations teams face a complex, moving target. But unfortunately, they’re typically armed with only a disparate collection of management tools - with little or no integration. Network teams deal with equipment outages, slowdowns, security breaches, inability to reach resources, access denials, and other issues that can be caused by anything from a bad connection to devious hackers.

To address these challenges, we are now offering the 5th suite in the ITOM portfolio – Network Operations Management (NOM). Combining the functionality of Network Node Manager i (NNMi) and Network Automation (NA) and additional suite functionality such as reporting, NOM represents our path forward to managing web-scale networks with their evolving mix of physical, virtual, and software-defined networks.
Join this webinar to get an in-depth understanding about Network Operations Management including:
•Enhanced workflows designed to drive productivity and reduce
•Ongoing capability and content enhancements for both the suite and standalone products
•New licensing models to enable upgrades at an average of half the cost of a la carte purchases

Hear Micro Focus R&D’s recorded webinar at Vivit! See a review and demonstration of LoadRunner/Performance Center 12.55 that empowers DevOps teams to manage complexity in today’s world. Don’t miss out on this informative webinar!

The adoption and popularity of containerized applications has exploded in recent years. According to Gartner, more than 50% of new workloads will be deployed in containers by 2018.

But where does that leave the other 50%? How are virtual machines measuring up and how will applications built on these infrastructures survive the digital transformation caused by Docker and other container platforms?

Join this expert panel discussion with Fabio Gomez, Cloud Solution Architect- CASE, IBM, Tarak Modi, President & CTO of TekNirvana, Swen Conrad, CEO of Ocean9, and Phil Mullan, Head of Engineering at Huddle, to discuss which IT infrastructure makes the most sense for your business in the digital age, and the pros and cons of different operating systems.

Docker containers are changing the way we build, deploy, and access current day software solutions. They help us build, share and use software across any device, on any platform and anywhere in a seamless manner. In this session, you will see how to dockerize a basic piece of software, pushing it to the docker registry and pulling other docker images into your system.

If you have been tasked with building an application security program, or your organization is starting to consider one, you may be curious where to start.

Not only does application security rely on sound security understanding, it also relies on a fundamental understanding of software development. You must consider things like budget, or lack thereof, resources, priorities, and strategy when building an application security program.

In this talk, James Jardine, CEO of DevelopSec, will talk about these different considerations when just getting started. Come learn some of the key elements to helping get your application security program started in the right direction.

James Jardine is CEO of DevelopSec, owner of Jardine Software, an application security consultancy, as well as founder and regular contributor to Down the Security Rabbit Hole and DevelopSec podcasts. He has over 16 years experience focusing on application security and software development. James is a regular keynote speaker, including InfoSec World 2017.

So you need to secure your Java web application, but where do you start? This presentation will walk you through the OWASP Top 10 list of application security vulnerabilities and introduce the tools you need to implement basic security in your own applications. By the end of this session you should understand how to get started with web security in Java, know what tools are available, and be aware of resources you can use for self-study.